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What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt by Tessa Miller
23 reviews
meliroo's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Chronic illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Excrement
nhackley's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Chronic illness, Addiction, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Medical content, Grief, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, and Alcoholism
kyullua's review against another edition
3.25
What made me lower the score was the focus on the american healthcare system, which while I understand the needs to some of the readers I expected to hear more about coping and living with IBD and someone with IBD myself
I related to a lot of what the author said but felt like the developing “connection” (if you can call it that) was cut halfway through it with a lot of info regarding the medical system there
Graphic: Chronic illness
Minor: Death of parent and Alcoholism
atokuyama's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Medical content, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Excrement, Grief, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Chronic illness
Moderate: Blood, Pandemic/Epidemic, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Addiction, Death, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Domestic abuse, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Misogyny, Ableism, and Gaslighting
rockyroadbutch's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Excrement, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Medical content, and Blood
Moderate: Mental illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Ableism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, and Grief
pulpandprose's review against another edition
Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Chronic illness, Addiction, and Death of parent
katrinarose's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Addiction, Grief, Drug use, Drug abuse, Blood, Vomit, Alcoholism, and Toxic relationship
laurenkimoto's review
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Chronic illness, Rape, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit
internationalreads's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Grief, Self harm, Sexual assault, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Domestic abuse
the_vegan_bookworm's review against another edition
5.0
If you are chronically ill or disabled, I especially recommend this book to you.
This being said, please note the trigger warnings as this book may be difficult to read for some people. Miller discusses the abuse she experienced from her alcoholic father and drug-addicted ex-boyfriend, the nitty gritty of Crohn's (including detailed references to excrement, blood and vomit), medical trauma and ableism of many kinds, and sexual assault.
Graphic: Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Grief, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit
Minor: Fatphobia and Racism